endosmosis
Americannoun
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Biology. osmosis toward the inside of a cell or vessel.
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Physical Chemistry. the flow of a substance from an area of lesser concentration to one of greater concentration (opposed to exosmosis).
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Etymology
Origin of endosmosis
1830–40; Latinization of now obsolete endosmose < French; see end-, osmosis
Example Sentences
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If, now, by way of my stomach, through endosmosis and exosmosis, I get them more water, the proper conditions will return.''
From Criminal Psychology; a manual for judges, practitioners, and students by Gross, Hans Gustav Adolf
During the storage of eggs the more aqueous white of egg yields by endosmosis a portion of its water to the more concentrated yolk, which thereby expands and renders its thin containing-membrane liable to rupture.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 5 "Fleury, Claude" to "Foraker" by Various
Soon, however, by a sort of endosmosis to which the densest vanity is somewhat subject, the truth began to seep through and to penetrate into him.
From The Plum Tree by Ashe, E. M.
There may be, he suggests, in the psychical world, a process analogous to what is known in the physical world as "endosmosis."
From Bergson and His Philosophy by Gunn, John Alexander
Certain analogies between this selecting power and the phenomena of endosmosis in the elective affinities of chemistry we can find, but the problem of force remains here, as everywhere, unsolved and insolvable.
From Medical Essays, 1842-1882 by Holmes, Oliver Wendell
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